The Boat
Red Roo is an Alliage 38, a French designed and built aluminium centerboarder designed for blue water cruising. Builder: Alliage Constructed: 2004 Designers: Berret/Racoupeau Length: 12 m Beam: 3.9m Draught: 0.8m / 2.2m (lifting centre board) Material: Aluminium Rig: Sloop Cabins: 2 Sleeping +…
The Crew
Captain – Phil After being exposed to various boats, yachts & elements of sailing on and off all his life Phil made the plunge into sailing life full time with a two part adventure initially from Tasmania to New Zealand and then part two being…
Our Journey
Our Journey So Far . . . We set sail from Le Havre (France) in November 2015 to explore Europe and beyond with the plan to eventually sail our way back home to Australia. However Australia is a long way off, we have a lot to see…
Marvellous Montenegro (June/July 2022)
After lifting anchor it was approximately 10 minutes before we entered Montenegro waters, we had anchored on the border with Albania setting ourselves up for an early, easy (we hoped) check-in to our 25th country on Red Roo. We had VHF contact with Bar…
9 Days & 155 Nautical Miles in Albania
We could see Albania from our final anchorage at Corfu in Greece and it took us just over 3 hours to arrive. Albania is country number 24 on the great adventures aboard Red Roo. We called the Sarandë Harbour Master on the VHF and…
Off Again, Sailing into 2022
We couldn’t believe it was May already, and we are only just leaving the marina. Well I guess we didn’t park up until November last year and the winter flew by with so much work on the boat and lots of travel in Turkiye….
Red Roo 